07-03-2016, 05:15 PM
"Telescopes have now become sacred structures in their own right. Today they’re built like temples—solitary monuments on towering mountaintops.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ar...pe/489362/"
Personally, I think that's a silly and overreaching claim and likely a journalist just finding something to say at the end of their article. No telescope is sacred and the comparison to temples is bizarre. Temples are places that are devoted to the worship of a god. Modern telescopes aren't albeit those built thousands of years ago might have been.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ar...pe/489362/"
Personally, I think that's a silly and overreaching claim and likely a journalist just finding something to say at the end of their article. No telescope is sacred and the comparison to temples is bizarre. Temples are places that are devoted to the worship of a god. Modern telescopes aren't albeit those built thousands of years ago might have been.